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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  to your questions - but this was too good not to post right away. So ... people you know are going to be your classmates for the next four years ... party. Go on hacking tours. Hug a beaver. Especially since you'll get to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to ... fight with my advisor to get this to go through. I was ready. This is ... you ask to get a cookie she is more likely to say yes. My [annotation

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  agencies. These will be directly uploaded into your file in plenty of time to ... ,000+ applications in a small space, so the filing can get a little crowded! When your ... . When we get them, the folders are all set to go -- it looks so easy! But

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  , someone is always going to undercut you and counter your "I only got 5 hours ... the real world and how intentions mean squat if you're not getting it ... . Training.   There you go, you're now on your first step to becoming

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Seatbelts, Everyone! Interrupting Radio Silence...

  

  said "Take chances! Make mistakes! Get messy." I'll add to that only ... speaks the truth. (for those confused, i must point you to the wikipedia ... a week ago, I feel compelled to at least pretend I have some salient

  • by Alina G. '11
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  , since the event was limited to members of the MIT community. If you’re ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... for book lovers: MIT and the Greater Boston area have plenty to offer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A ... person with some unique circumstance) and you open up your grade report to ... because I wanted to get it over with and be like hardcore but by Thursday

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  idea in itself. It would take a period of getting used to, but we know ... collectively get together today to create the English language from scratch, then ... a general amendment to language, which would be worth getting past any

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  decision your gut really wants to make- but practices like these help draw ... your mind that always seem to elude you. After this round of soul searching, it’s time to change course, to take the necessary steps to get you

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  . Getting to that fraternity or sorority party. Visiting your friends in ... the beginning of the year, so it's perfectly feasible to get an inexpensive bike here. It also makes it easier to get to really nice places over

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  out of your control, so it doesn’t make sense to put too much weight on ... stop wanting to. Not ‘some way to get rid of him’ - but a way to stop trying. Not ‘some way to save my child’ - but a way to lose your fear.” i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  and tried miserably to do it all, Getting new emails by the hundreds, on ... to the great and wonderful institutions that are Princeton and Yale ... semester of MIT. Ode to PNR Pretty please Pass/No Record, how I wish you

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Forget that Or, "Why I won't be posting next week"

  

  another Laura moved onto the floor over a year ago, I've been trying to get ... of my kitchen stuff (bowls and spoons and so on), she promised to save me a piece. Now, whenever you print something to one of the campus

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  . It’s always neat to explain your work to people who know so much more ... to your professors while surrounded by burbling chocolate fountains and ... In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wanna be on the Radio? (Update) CPW: T Minus 4 Days

  

  than willing to link to it if you send me an email with a link to your ... Thanks to everyone who volunteered to write a CPW Blog Entry. At this ... I'm going to stop asking for volunteers. But, if you have a personal

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  There is such a thing as a free event Collegefest is going on this weekend, go get yourself some free junk!

  

  Advantage Card and $10 if you don't. Anyway, if you're interested in getting a ... then it's not to be missed! Oooh, you can also get a lot of Starbucks and ... Another busy week of classes has come to end! To celebrate, I went

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  first leg of the trip, left Boston. (Note to self: pack the night before, otherwise one is bound to forget things when one is rushing to get out the ... central meeting around 6PM, and that's when things started to get

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  , leaving only to find Challenger, another beast of 5W. As the night gets ... and mutter 'mmph five more minutes' but the sunlight inspired me to get ... always on different dorms, live in each other's rooms for several days to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  up, move the fruit around with a utensil to get some air and space to ... open the food processor. You move the fruit around with a utensil to get ... . All of this to say, even when it seems like your processor is full of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  information out there. Narrow your field of major choices down to only subjects ... hardest major, you HAVE to have a sense of what you're capable of and what you're getting yourself into. I know quite a few people who have either

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007